‘Extraordinary Acceleration’: Takeaways From The Pandemic This Week

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December 5th, 2020

Health care workers in Houston, Texas, perform a procedure on a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thanksgiving. This past week has seen continued steep growth in cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.

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With the arrival of December, it’s now clear the winter surge of the pandemic is materializing in many of the ways that the country’s top scientists and health care leaders feared.

On all fronts — cases, hospitalizations and deaths — the U.S. toppled records this week.

For the first time, new infections soared above 200,000 cases in a single day.

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